Massive Tunnel Bust in Ceuta Smuggles Hashish

0:00It's March 31st. This is global news today, AI-powered stories from around the world. Spanish police just busted a massive tunnel operation in Suda that Spanish exclave in North Africa right on the Moroccan border. They found this elaborate setup hidden under an industrial warehouse used to smuggle tons of hashish straight into Europe. In the raid, they seized 17 metric tons of the drug and 1.4 million euros in cash while arresting 27 people involved. The tunnel was no joke, stretching over three levels with a descent shaft, a storage chamber for pallets, and the main passage itself. It even had a rail system and an underground crane to haul the goods efficiently across the border. Suda, and nearby Malilla, marked the European Union's only land frontier with Africa, making them hot spots for this kind of smuggling. Usually, hashish crews rely on speedboats zipping across the sea from Morocco, but this tunnel shows they're getting creative to dodge patrols.

1:01Spain leaves the pack in Europe for hashish busts, grabbing 68% of all resin seizures in the EU last year. Officials say it's a key gateway for the drug, derived from cannabis resin flooding into the continent. With operations like this getting shut down, authorities are ramping a vigilance along these borders, but the cat and mouse game with smuggler shows. No signs of slowing, stay sharp out there.